Stakeholders
The Regional ITS Architecture resulted from the consensus input of a diverse set of stakeholders, encompassing traffic, transit, public safety, and many other operating agencies at local, state, and national levels. It includes both public and private sectors and spans the organizations that manage, support, or are impacted by the surface transportation system, with particular focus on agencies that operate transportation systems in the region.
| Stakeholder | Description |
|---|---|
| Airborne Emergency Response Services | Life Flight Eagle and Life Net EMS are airborne medivac resources that serve the Kansas City area. Their services are an integral part of the emergency response organization in the region. Strategically located in the middle of the country LifeNet Air Medical Services operates five aircraft from four locations in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. The service provides the safe and rapid transports by helicopter of critically ill and injured patients. LifeFlight Eagle is a non profit organization dedicated to serving the community by providing safe, quality air transport of critically ill and injured persons in a timely and cost effective manner. Physicians/hospitals, EMS agencies, law enforcement, fire and the 911 Dispatch Systems have access to LifeFlight Eagle's in-house communication center. The LifeFlight Eagle in house communication center alerts the closest appropriate helicopter to these requests. |
| Archive Data Users | Represents users of archive data for planning, research, analysis and operations. |
| City of Independence, MO | Independence is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies within Jackson County, of which it is the county seat. Independence is a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. It has a population of approximately 117,000. |
| City of Kansas City, MO | Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. The city encompasses over 300 square miles in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It has a population of approximately 482,000. |
| City of Lees Summit, MO | Lee's Summit is a city located within the counties of Jackson (primarily) and Cass in the U.S. state of Missouri. It has a population of approximately 96,000, making it the sixth-largest city in both the state and in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. |
| City of Lenexa, KS | Lenexa is a city in Johnson County, Kansas and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. It has a population of approximately 53,000. It is bordered by the cities of Shawnee to the north, Overland Park to the east, De Soto to the west and Olathe to the south. |
| City of Olathe, KS | Olathe is the second largest among the 21 communities in Johnson County, and the fourth largest city in the state. It is located 20 miles southwest of downtown Kansas City. It has a population of approximately 135,000. |
| City of Overland Park, KS | A suburb of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, Overland Park was incorporated as a first-class city May 20, 1960 with a population of 28,085. Since then, the city has grown to more than 191,000 residents, making it the second most populous city in Kansas. |
| Communication System Providers | Communication System Providers represent providers of wireless and wireline communication services. |
| Connected Vehicle Stakeholder | Connected Vehicle technologies are evolving and are becoming part of the solution set for transportation in the future. With the connected vehicle applications not yet determined for implementation in the Kansas City region, connected vehicle services have been included in the architecture. The Connected Vehicle Stakeholder is a placeholder for any stakeholder who decides to pursue connected vehicle for deployment in the region. As the plans become more specific and stakeholders are identified to fill this role, the architecture will be updated to reflect those developments. |
| Counties and Cities | County-level and city-level agencies. |
| Credentials Service Provider | Credentials are required to communicate in a trustworthy and secure manner for devices in the connected vehicle environment. The Credentials Service Provider will manage, operate and maintain the credentials management system. |
| Customs Agencies | Domestic and foreign governmental agencies responsible for the regulation of trade, and the enforcement of customs and immigration laws. These agencies include U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its counterparts in Canada and Mexico. DHS includes components like Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Other agencies include secondary trade agencies (e.g., U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, other USDOT departments, etc.), and agencies from other trading nations. The systems they manage coordinate activities related to the border crossings. These systems support import/export cargo processing and enforcement operations at the border, including programs such as FAST, Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Nexus (Canada), SENTRI (Mexico), and US-VISIT. |
| Event Sponsors/Facilities | This is a collection of stakeholders representing Event Sponsors and Facilities such as the Kansas City Speedway, Kansas City Sports Complex, and entertainment and convention facilities. |
| Foreign Trade Zone Facilities | Kansas City was a pioneer in the setting of distributed foreign trade zones (FTZ), which conveys several operational advantages in managing freight distribution, particularly when foreign cargo is involved. Each FTZ is not a unique real estate asset at a single location, but a set of sites (sub-zones), each enabling to exploit a specific locational advantage such as an airport, intermodal rail yard, or highway interchange. A total of 14 FTZ sites accounting for 10,000 acres of land are available. |
| Freight and Intermodal Companies | Freight and Intermodal Companies represents the freight and intermodal shipping industry in the Kansas City area who own and operate businesses using freight containers, intermodal chassis or trailers and provide information to support safe, secure and efficient freight operations. |
| Independence Transit Authority | Operates and manages the City of Independence Transit System (IndeBus). |
| Intermodal Facilities | Intermodal Facilities handle the movement of freight between roadway freight transportation and air, rail, and/or water shipping modes. The facilities normally handle containerized freight and include electronic gate control for entrance and exit from the facility, automated guidance of vehicles within the facility, alerting appropriate parties of container arrivals and departures, and inventory and location of temporarily stored containers. |
| Johnson County Transit | Johnson County Transit (JCT) operates public transit service in Johnson County, KS. JCT services include: Standard Express: Operating between points in Johnson County, KS, downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and Crown Center. K10 Commuter: Operating express service between Johnson County, KS and Douglas County, KS Local Link: Service which operates within a designated service area in Johnson County, KS The JO-Special Edition: This is an affordable curb-to-curb transportation service for elderly, disabled, or low income Johnson County residents that live within the service area. |
| Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) | KBI (Kansas Bureau of Investigation) provides professional investigative and laboratory services to criminal justice agencies and collects and disseminates criminal justice information to public and private agencies for the purpose of promoting public safety and the prevention of crime in Kansas. |
| Kansas City Health and Social Services | This stakeholder group includes organzations that provide health and social services in the Kansas City area. |
| Kansas City Health Care Organizations | This stakeholder includes organizations that provide health care in the Kansas City area as well as organizations that oversee health care at a government level. It includes hospitals, urgent care providers, and medical facilities across the region. Government organizations include departments of health in Cass County, City of Independence, City of Kansas City MO, Clay County, Jackson County, Johnson County KS, Johnson County MO, Leavenworth, Miami County, Platte County, Ray County, and Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City KS. |
| Kansas City Power and Lighting | Kansas City Power and Lighting (KCP&L) is partner in the Kansas City Smart City initiative providing charging stations for electric vehicles. |
| Kansas City SmartPort | Kansas City SmartPort is a non-profit economic development organization that focuses on (1) improving the area's transportation industry by attracting businesses with significant transportation and logistics elements, and (2) making it cheaper, faster, more efficient, and secure for companies to move goods into, from, and through the Kansas City area. |
| Kansas City Speedway | The Kansas City Speedway includes a 1.5 mile tri-oval and a 2.37 mile road course on over 1,200 acres located in Wyandotte County Kansas near the interchange of I-435 and I-70. It has a parking capacity of over 35,000 vehicles and hosts NASCAR and other motorsports racing events. |
| Kansas City Sports Complex | The Kansas City Sports Complex, also known as the Truman Sports Complex, includes Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs NFL football team and Kauffman Stadium, home of the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball Team. |
| Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) | The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT). State-level agency responsible for the transportation system for Kansas. |
| Kansas Div of Emergency Management (KDEM) | Kansas Division of Emergency Management (KDEM) is a state-level agency that works to reduce loss of life and property and protect Kansans from all hazards by providing and coordinating resources, expertise, leadership and advocacy through a comprehensive, risk-based emergency management program of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. |
| Kansas Highway Patrol | The Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) is a state-level agency responsible for incident and emergency management and enforcement of Kansas Interstate highways. 11 Troops serve east, central, and west regions throughout the state. Troop A serves the Kansas City region and provides Motorist Assist services in addition to traffic enforcement and criminal interdicition. |
| KC Streetcar Authority | The Kansas City Streetcar Authority (KCSA) is a not-for-profit organization formed for the purpose of managing, operating, and maintaining the streetcar once it is operational. In addition to overseeing streetcar operations, the KCSA supports system branding, marketing, public communication, and community engagement. While the KCSA is a separate entity, it works closely with the City of Kansas City, Missouri and the downtown Transportation Development District (TDD) to coordinate service development and long-term management of the streetcar. The day-to-day functions of the KCSA are managed by its staff with oversight from the Board of Directors. Streetcar operations use KCATA scheduling and radio systems. |
| KCATA | The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) is a bi-state agency created by a compact between the States of Missouri and Kansas, and approved by the United States Congress. The compact was authorized by legislation passed in both states in 1965. The compact gives the ATA responsibility for planning, construction, owning and operating passenger transportation systems and facilities within the seven-county Kansas City metropolitan area. The compact defines the ATA district as the counties of Cass, Clay, Jackson, and Platte in Missouri; and Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte in Kansas. The Authority's jurisdiction is limited to these seven counties. KCATA oversees the operations contracts of Johnson County Transit, Unified Government Transit and Indebus. The ATA operates RideKC bus service, the Metro Area Express (MAX) Bus Rapid Transit service, Flex demand-response routes, RideKC Freedom paratransit service for the elderly and persons with disabilities, and RideKC vanpool service. KCATA oversees the operations contracts for Johnson County Transit and Unified Government Transit. |
| KDOT / MoDOT | The Kansas and Missouri Departments of Transportation. These agencies are responsible for the operation of the Kansas City Scout Operations Center in the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area. |
| KDOT District/ Area/Sub-area Offices | KDOT District/ Area/Sub-area Offices support central office performing district/area/sub-area specific emergency and incident management, traffic management and maintenance and construction activities. |
| KDOT Division of Public Affairs | The KDOT Bureau of Transportation Information, a bureau within the KDOT Division of Public Affairs, manages statewide traveler information systems. |
| KTA | KTA (Kansas Turnpike Authority) is responsible for the administration and collection of tolls, enforcement and maintenance along the Kansas Turnpike. |
| Life Flight Eagle | LifeFlight Eagle is a non profit organization dedicated to serving the community by providing safe, quality air transport of critically ill and injured persons in a timely and cost effective manner. Physicians/hospitals, EMS agencies, law enforcement, fire and the 911 Dispatch Systems have access to LifeFlight Eagle's in-house communication center. The LifeFlight Eagle in house communication center alerts the closest appropriate helicopter to these requests. |
| Life Net in the Heartland | Strategically located in the middle of the country LifeNet Air Medical Services operates five aircraft from four locations in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. The service provides the safe and rapid transports by helicopter of critically ill and injured patients. |
| LinkforCare | Link for Care is a community service for caregivers, individuals needing personal assistance, healthcare professionals, social workers, discharge planners, and mental health professionals in Kansas City. Link for Care can be accessed at www.LinkforCare.org. Link for Care is maintained and managed by the Central Plains Geriatric Staff at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Landon Center on Aging, and was developed in part with funding from the Department of Veteran's Affairs and the Department of Transportation. MARC is also a partner. |
| Major KC Shipping and Industrial Firms | Kansas City is home to major shipping and industrial firms such as Amazon, FedEx, UPS, Home Depot, Foot Locker, Target, and Walmart. |
| MARC | The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) serves as the association of city and county governments and the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the bi-state Kansas City region. MARC's Board of Directors consists of 33 locally elected leaders representing the nine counties and 120 cities in the bi-state metropolitan Kansas City region. As the designated MPO for the Kansas City region, MARC is responsible for the development of plans and programs that provide for the development and integrated management and operation of transportation systems, and facilities that will function as a multimodal transportation system for a geographic area that is projected to be urbanized within the next 20 years. For purposes of metropolitan transportation planning, MARC's current jurisdiction consists of seven counties: Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte counties in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte, and Miami counties in Kansas — encompassing a population of approximately 2.0 million people. MARC operates the Operation Green Light which is a cooperative effort to improve coordination of traffic signals and incident response on major routes in the Kansas City area. |
| Media | This stakeholder represents the information systems that provide traffic reports, travel conditions, and other transportation-related news services to the traveling public through radio, TV, and other media. |
| Missouri Department of Public Safety | The Department of Public Safety is comprised of eight different agencies (including two commissions) and six separate programs (including the Highway Patrol) all committed to ensuring the safety of the citizens of Missouri. Additionally, The Office of the Director administers the Homeland Security Program and state and federal funds in grants for juvenile justice, victims' assistance, law enforcement and narcotics control. |
| Missouri State Emergency Mgmt Agency | The State Emergency Management Agency's mission is to protect the lives and property of all Missourians when major disasters threaten public safety in any city, county or region of Missouri. SEMA responds to two types of disasters - natural and those caused by man. Natural disasters are major snow and/or ice storms, floods, tornadoes and/or severe weather, as well as a potential major earthquake along Missouri's New Madrid Fault. Man-made disasters, also known as technological emergencies, may include hazardous material incidents, nuclear power plant accidents and other radiological hazards. SEMA is also responsible for developing a State Emergency Operations Plan which coordinates the actions of Missouri state government departments and agencies in the event of any emergency requiring the use of state resources and personnel. SEMA also serves as the statewide coordinator for activities associated with the National Flood Insurance Program. |
| MoDOT | The Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT). State-level agency responsible for the transportation system for Missouri. |
| NOAA | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who runs the National Weather Service (NWS). |
| Object Registration Service Providers | Object Registration Service Providers provide registration and lookup services necessary to allow objects to locate (for communications purposes) other objects operating within the Connected Vehicle Environment. |
| Parking Facility Operators | This represent operators of parking facilities in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. |
| Private Information Service Providers | Private entities that collect, process, store, and disseminate transportation information to system operators and the traveling public. |
| Private Mayday Service Providers | Entities that allow users to signal a need for emergency assistance to a monitored response center. |
| Private Paratransit Providers | Private transit systems that provide service to elderly and handicapped riders. |
| Private Trucking Companies | A stakeholder group representing trucking companies that operate commercial vehicles. |
| Railroad Companies | This stakeholder represents the various railroad operators in the Kansas City area. Among these operators are the Union Pacific (UPRR), Burlington Northern Sante Fe (BNSF), Kansas City Southern (KCS), Norfolk Southern (NS), and Kansas City Terminal Railroad (KCT). |
| Regional Transit Operators | The Regional Transit Operators stakeholder group represents the three major providers of transit in the Kansas City Area. |
| Ride Hailing Services | Ride Hailing Services provide ride matching or ridesharing service, including those provided by companies such as Uber and Lyft. These are private sector services. |
| System Terminators | Terminators define the boundary of an architecture. The National ITS Architecture terminators represent the people, systems, and general environment that interface to ITS. The interfaces between terminators and the subsystems and processes within the National ITS Architecture are defined, but no functional requirements are allocated to terminators. |
| Travelers | Stakeholder group representing travelers or users of the transportation system. |
| Unified Government Public Works | Unified Government Of Kansas City, Kansas and Wyandotte County is a unique consolidated city-county government. Unified Government Public Works provides the administration, planning, and engineering for the City's infrastructure. This includes design, maintenance and installation of streets and right-of-ways, bridges and roads, and all traffic control devices. Kansas City, Kansas is the third largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. |
| Unified Government Transit | Unified Government Transit (UGT) operates public transit service in Wyandotte County, KS. Services offered include fixed route operations, dial-a-ride, and aging/senior transportation services. |